A question from our second game played. Player one has the planestalker as his leader, Zaamassal Kett, that says "This leader's attack is ranged. All heroes in this unit have ranged attack." The second player placed the trapper in the vanguard row in front of his leader. The trapper's vanguard power states "Intercept. Takes no damage from ranged attacks."

On player one's vanguard wave he has a character attack player two's trapper(with a basic attack not a positional ability.) Does the trapper take any damage?

One thought was that Zaamassal's power turns all basic attacks by his unit into ranged attacks. The trapper takes no damage, being as he's immune to ranged.

The other thought was that individual characters got to choose whether their basic attacks were melee (if their card icon is melee) or ranged (from Zaamassal's power.)